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Authors: Charles Knief

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Their child was flaming Ka-p
-likoliko-i-ka-lani
she with the shark's face and flashing eyes
she of the restless questing gaze.
 
 
 
Reprinted by permission from
The Echo of Our Song:
Chants & Poems of the Hawaiians
. Translated & Edited by Mary K. Pukui & Alfons L. Korn. University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu, 1991.
DIAMOND HEAD. Copyright © 1996 by Ildi Co. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, address St. Martin's Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
 
 
Production Editor: David Stanford Burr
Design by Ellen R. Sasahara
 
 
eISBN 9781429925303
First eBook Edition : May 2011
 
 
Library of Congress Catatloging-in-Publication Data
Knief, Charles.
Diamond Head / Charles Knief.—1st ed.
p. cm.
“A Thomas Dunne book.”
ISBN 0-312-14558-6
I. Title.
PS3561.N426D53 1996
813'.54—dc20
96-21238
CIP

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